Valentine Web Systems: The European environment – state and outlook 2010...
SOER 2010 "SOER 2010 provides a set of assessments of the current state of Europe's environment, its likely future state, what is being done and what could be done to improve it, how global megatrends...
View ArticleFred van Dijk: Buildout and the case of case sensitive eggs
Yes We Are Sensitive This bites me now and then: if you add a python package to your instance eggs, please pay attention to upper/lower case. Especially if you ever want to version pin your buildout to...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Project skeletons: gathering and distributing knowledge
A skeleton is something you generate a new project with. So: one command and you've got a fresh directory with everything in there to start a new django app, website, python library, whatever. Basic...
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Daniel Greenfeld: Stupid Template Languages
For years I've been absolutely certain that I really prefer stupid template languages any time I'm generating HTML. The less the template language can do the better. Since I spend most of my time...
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Netsight Developers: Online Information 2010: Don't take Plone for Granted
So, Online Information 2010 is now over. Three days of a conference and associated show floor expo dealing with all manner of things to do with producing, managing, publishing and searching information...
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Tarek Ziade: $ rsync mozilla/services community #week 48
What’s this ? read this post Week 48 Easy Setup on new devices: I have benched the server on stage using Funkload to make sure everything works nicely, and realized that the Nginx + Gunicorn setup is...
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Connexions Blog: IEEE-SPS lens highlights vetted curriculum for engineering...
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Signal Processing Society has announced the IEEE-SPS endorsement lens in Connexions. The IEEE-SPS lens highlights free, peer-reviewed,...
View ArticleNetsight Developers: Online Information 2010: Challenges for Commercial CMS...
Last week's Online Information 2010 expo (formerly IMS) in London marked what looked like an interesting turning point in the CMS market. There were far fewer commercial CMS vendors there than previous...
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Lennart Regebro: I am Spartacus
This is a randomly picked document from the cablegate of Wikileaks. Why? Because. Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin 09STATE96550 2009-09-17 11:11 2010-11-28 18:06 SECRET Secretary of...
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Connexions Blog: Word Processing Essentials published in Connexions
Word Processing Essentials is a Connexions collection of modules to teach or refresh skills using Microsoft Word. The intended audience is anyone who needs to create a simple term or research paper for...
View ArticleSix Feet Up: How Wikileaks Sets the Bar for a New Age of Knowledge Dissemination
We have definitely entered a new age and the opportunities are amazing. I can easily see how a technology, well applied, has the ability to start to change the world and how we can quite literally...
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Daniel Greenfeld: Leaving NASA
This has been a hard post to write. I was delighted that on January 3rd, 2005 I started my first day working for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). While I wasn't working on...
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Connexions Developers Blog: Switching from Squid to Varnish (and getting some...
We recently (November 19th) switched from Squid to Varnish for serving requests on cnx.org. The new configuration improved performance for content visitors and gave us a chance to test some new...
View ArticleReinout van Rees: Including external files in Sphinx
I'm writing my documentation with sphinx. In my project, I've got a doc/ subdirectory with the index.txt and the rest of the documentation, so the total structure looks something like this: myproject/...
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Tarek Ziade: Funkload + Fabric = quick and dirty distributed load system
We’re currently using The Grinder for our Sync load tests at Mozilla Services. Grinder will let you write the tests using Jython and run a distributed load test. Despite the Java and Jython environment...
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Karl Horak: CMS Comparison, expanded for Plone
Ashleigh Davis put together a nice table for comparing Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress. It seems only fair that I take that format one step further and produce an equivalent listing for Plone. Plone...
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Sidnei da Silva: Even Faster Web Sites, with YUI
Ever since I got my copy of Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites I’ve became obsessed with speed. During my day job I’m constantly looking for things that can be improved to make the user experience...
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Sidnei da Silva: Javascript Testing and Browser Speed
Just a quick post to get me started at blogging again. Over the last year (wow, time flies by!) I’ve been working at Canonical, as part of the Landscape team. This is a very diverse team with lots of...
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